Improvement in barrel-hoops



L. REED.

Barrel-Hoops.

N0.l47,284, Patented Feb.l0,1874.

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IMPROVMNT IN ARRhHOOPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1147,284, dated February 1 0, 1874 application led January 2, 1874.

To all whom it may coucemf 4 or set edgewise, as hereinafter particularly described.

Figure l is a perspective view of a curved block of wood designed-to be cut or sliced up to make hoops. Fig. 2 is an edge view ofthe same. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a slice for a `hoop cut from the block, Figs. l and 2. Fig. et is an edge view of the same. Fig. 5 is a side view of a hoop formed of the piece, Figs. 3 and d. Fig. 6 is a top view of the saine.

The preferable method of making this hoop consists in preparing a block of some kind of proper wood for hoops of suitable length, and as thick as the desired width ot' the hoops to be made from it, and curving it as shown in Fig. l. This permanent curve may be conveniently given to it by iirs't steaming it, and then passing it between rollerstwo below and one above, the latter arranged intermediate, the former,witl1 their lower peripheral surfaces a little below the plane of the upper peripheral surfaces of the former. This will give to the block a permanent set. It may, however, be bent by any other method most convenient. Frein the edge of this block I then cut or slice strips or pieces of a` suitable thickness for hoops, which are represented by Figs. 3 and 4;. Vhen such a strip, one edge of which is longer than the other, is bent latwise into the form ofa hoop, the longer edge will have, of course, a greater diameter than the shorter edge, thus giving to the hoop the requisite ilare to fit the taper of a barrel. Any degree of nare may be given to the hoop by the degree of curvature given to the block from which the hoops arc cut.

I do not here claim, broadly, a wooden hoop that is made flaring to lit the taper of the barrel, intending to limit my claim to a hoop that is made ot' a strip of' wood which, before it is bent into the hoop form, is curved edgewise, as described, thereby preserving the grain of the wood undisturbed and unbroken.

I claim- As a new manufacture, a wooden barrel- NVitnesses:

B. S. CLARK, J. S. MAcKENZiE. 

